Editor’s note: President Donald Trump announced early on Saturday, January 3, that the United States had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife after a “large scale strike” on the country, a significant escalation of US involvement in the region. Since the early fall, the US has been building up its military forces in […] Read more ›
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Rep. Ilhan Omar, right, and Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal, left, conduct a news conference with newly elected members of the caucus in Washington, DC, in 2022. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty ImagesThey’ve urged Biden to invoke the 14th Amendment to tackle the issue solo. That could be complicated. As the US inches closer and closer to a projected default deadline, progressives in Congress have an increasingly pointed... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesThe administration didn’t get everything right. But there was no realistic way to totally avoid this mess. Amidst the continuing debt ceiling crisis and stop-start negotiations between the White House and House Republicans, a disappointing realization for liberals is sinking in: President Biden will likely end up making substantial concessions on spending cuts to avert the crisis. So, many are asking: Did Biden and Democrats screw this whole thing... Read more ›
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a press conference at the American Police Hall of Fame and Museum in Titusville, Florida, on May 1, 2023. | Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe NAACP is the latest to issue a travel advisory for Florida because of Ron DeSantis’s policies. Several civil rights organizations are now cautioning various minorities against traveling to Florida following a flurry of state legislation this year targeting... Read more ›
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) speaks at the Vision ’24 National Conservative Forum on March 18, 2023, in Charleston, South Carolina. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe South Carolina Republican is running as someone who has “lived the American dream.” South Carolina’s Republican Sen. Tim Scott formally announced Monday that he is running for president in 2024. The announcement was held at Charleston Southern University, the Baptist college he attended just outside Charleston,... Read more ›
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A soldier of the 28th Brigade’s Aerial Reconnaissance Regiment preparing equipment on a mission to the front south of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on May 17, 2023. | Vincenzo Circosta/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesRussia says it has control of the city of Bakhmut. Now what? Russia has claimed control of Bakhmut, a city at the center of one of the most prolonged and brutal battles of the Ukraine war. Moscow... Read more ›
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Halle Bailey as Ariel in The Little Mermaid. Yes, this shot is unfortunately extremely dark. | Courtesy of DisneyThe poor, unfortunate remake isn’t nearly as visually spectacular as the original Disney classic. At the heart of Disney’s original The Little Mermaid is a question about our own existence: How can a world that makes such wonderful things — gadgets, gizmos, whosits, and whatsits — be bad? At the heart of... Read more ›
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) speaks at the Vision ’24 National Conservative Forum on March 18, 2023, in Charleston, South Carolina. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe South Carolina Republican is running as someone who has “lived the American dream.” South Carolina’s Republican Sen. Tim Scott will formally announce Monday that he is running for president in 2024. The announcement, which will be held at Charleston Southern University, the Baptist college he attended... Read more ›
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Rally for child care on the State House Lawn in Montpelier on April 12th, 2023 | Let’s Grow KidsInside the winning fight in Vermont. Action in Congress to support child care has been stalled for years. But in Vermont, lawmakers have just approved an ambitious plan that would pour tens of millions of new dollars into the state’s starved child care system. The bill authorizing $125 million in annual investment... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesYoung people are suddenly interested in working for the military industrial complex. For new college grads, the tech industry is out, and the defense industry is in. Well, sort of. Companies like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin saw some of the biggest jumps in search interest by this year’s grads on the popular college career site Handshake. Meanwhile, not a single tech company made the top 10. When it came... Read more ›
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The four Roy children attend their father’s funeral in HBO’s Succession. | Macall Polay/HBOTrauma, chaos, and a nation in peril. Note: This article contains spoilers for several Succession episodes, particularly season four, episode nine, “Church and State.” Last week’s episode of Succession took place inside the ATN headquarters on Election Day with barely a glimpse of the outside world. Now, in Church and State, the penultimate episode of the series,... Read more ›
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Louise Delmotte/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Zelenskyy visited the G7 and Arab League summits to make Ukraine’s case. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Hiroshima, Japan to make the case for expanded support from non-Western countries at the Arab League summit and the Group of 7 summit over the weekend. As Ukraine’s armed forces prepare for a counteroffensive in the ongoing effort to repel the Russian invasion,... Read more ›
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Malte Mueller/Getty ImagesMaybe the world doesn’t need to know every thought you’ve ever had. “The basic experience connected to shame,” wrote English philosopher Bernard Williams, “is that of being seen, inappropriately, by the wrong people, in the wrong condition.” Scrolling on my phone, I find myself thinking it is a good thing that Williams died in 2003 because an hour on any social media platform might have otherwise killed him.... Read more ›
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Migrants with CBP One app interviews are allowed to enter the United States at the Chaparral pedestrian border on May 16, 2023 in Tijuana, Mexico. | Carlos A. Moreno/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesThe expiration of Title 42 has put migration front and center in US politics. Can a humane policy also be a winning political one? US immigration law belongs fairly high up there on any list of injustices in... Read more ›
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee | Rogelio V. Solis for APRepublican leaders in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas are targeting Democratic communities and institutions Texas, Tennessee, and Mississippi — all led by Republican governors and legislatures — are pursuing efforts to diminish local control over policing, elections, and the courts in liberal and racially diverse areas. All of the proposed legislation targets issues that are particularly sensitive for marginalized areas, like elections... Read more ›
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Jess Hannigan for VoxWhat we lose when psychedelics are medicalized. It’s been quite the journey for psychedelics, and it’s just getting started. First, they were sacred and ceremonial plant medicines for millennia. In the 1960s era, they traversed an American culture of mind expansion, which used them as wild tools for transcending ordinary states of consciousness. Then came the backlash in the 1970s when they were outlawed by a nervous... Read more ›
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Twitter owner Elon Musk at a meeting with the French Minister for the Economy and Finances in Versailles, France. | Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty ImagesMusk’s week of conspiracy theories, explained. Despite criticism for continuing to engage with conspiracy theories, Elon Musk is posting through it. In the past five days, Musk has doubled down on a conspiracy theory about the Allen, Texas, shooter; tweeted that billionaire philanthropist George Soros (who... Read more ›
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Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesThe nationwide epidemic of catalytic converter thefts, explained. When Josy turned the ignition on her 2010 Prius one morning this February, she heard an unsettling rattle coming from underneath her car. Her girlfriend, Glory, unfortunately knew the sound all too well. Once again, thieves had targeted the cars parked at Glory’s Indianapolis apartment complex, searching for catalytic converters — the valuable, canister-like part of the car responsible for... Read more ›
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These Barbies sell Sunset. | Courtesy of NetflixAnd Chrishell helpfully enters her villain era. Netflix’s Selling Sunset is many things, but it has never been about selling sunsets. To be honest, it’s also not really — as the show’s logline suggests — about Los Angeles real estate. The hit reality show is, in actuality, a soap opera about gorgeous women and the friendships and light bullying they’re capable of, hidden... Read more ›
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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) receives the gavel from House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) after McCarthy was elected speaker, on January 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/GettyHouse Democrats’ long-shot plan to solve the debt ceiling crisis, explained. On Friday, Republicans walked away from negotiations between the White House and Speaker Kevin McCarthy on raising the debt ceiling. It’s unclear whether this is just a negotiating... Read more ›
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) arrives and takes her seat at a business hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on May 11, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesAbsent a voluntary resignation, party leaders have few options to get Feinstein to step down. For weeks, Sen. Dianne Feinstein was hammered over her extended absence because it meant that Democrats didn’t have the votes they needed to advance... Read more ›
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